Thank you very much for your answer. I did checkout the links you gave me. However, I did execute the commands which gave back 0. No known services were installed. Also the command chkconfig did return nothing.

But still, this is a little confusing for me and begging for more questions. For example, when running XAMPP 1.7.7 under (K)Ubuntu 11.10 i had no problem what so ever. So why is Mint gave me a headache? It is an Ubuntu based distro, is it not?

However, this is what i did based on your instructions:Step 1: Gave the command to stop SSL (it gave me a error because apache wasn't running, so i got the idea SSL could not be stopped)

I'm glad you got it working, and that you posted the exact steps needed.

As for 'why'? 'angel dust' (LOL).

Seriously, who knows? The linux community has built so many variants/distributions that its impossible to tell what is where, or how it works any longer. AND you can point the finger directly at the 'desktop-izers' of Linux as the problem children. (that of course is 'my opinion only').